Market Overview

The Bullish Trifecta Fed StatementReduce monthly bond purchases by $10B. Future tapering decisions will be data dependent. Pledge to keep interest rates low for an extended period. Small Taper Better...

The Fed fog seems to be lifting. Syrian smoke may be clearing, too. That calls for a strategy change. The Syria problem has morphed from a military action into a diplomatic initiative. The risk of...

The last two weeks have seen a variety of articles that discuss the five-year anniversary of the Financial Crisis of 2008, of which many date to the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers on September...

With only a few hours to go before the FOMC rate decision, the U.S. dollar is trading quietly mixed against all of the major currencies. The last time the Federal Reserve held a monetary policy...

A quantitative run through of the Swedish Fixed Income market, starting with the Riksbank and Money Markets before moving on to government and mortgage bonds.To Read the Entire Report Please Click on...

Just as the Obama administration faces a backlash and criticism over its handling of the crisis in Syria, the issue of the U.S. budget and debt ceiling is once again rearing its ugly head. The...

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce later today that it will begin winding down its $85-billion-a-month bond-buying program. Not surprisingly, there’s a wide range of opinion on...

The European markets opened higher this morning ahead of the FOMC statement expected today. But just after 9am they were already trading lower with FTSE at 6574 and DAX at 8616. Gold price dropped...

Here comes the Fed!We’re mere hours away from receiving a decision on the most overhyped debate in recent memory: “To taper or not to taper…” Who does Bernanke think he is...

The Nikkei 225 rebounded quite strongly today thanks to a weakening yen. Still many stocks were down as investors brace for a cut in the U.S. asset buying program. The question we are now asking is:...

Markets are rather cautious ahead of the highly anticipated FOMC announcement. Consensus suggested that the Fed would reduce its Treasury purchases by $10 billion per month, while some expect the MBS...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3310, 1.3294 and 1.3252(main),where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3235, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3207. Break of the latter would...

To the envy of other economies, the UK has recently produced a collection of impressive results. Unfortunately, this makes it very easy to forget how precarious their economic revival has been. The UK...

Equity markets are essentially at all time highs in advance of the September (Taper??) meeting.Generally speaking, sentiment is friendly to stocks and heavy on fixed income. Shortly we'll see if it's...